 Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick...  The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry - Page 363by Alexander Pope - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 lehte
...beyond mankind ; Jfc) No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics givM, l8£ T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. X +/ opties given, T inspect a mite, not comprehend the Heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1824 - 514 lehte
...; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear Why has not nun a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, — Man is not a fly. Say, what the use were finer optics given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven . Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 lehte
...beyond mankind; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can' bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason — man is not a fly. 22 Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 lehte
...beyond mankind ; 190 No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given, T inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 lehte
...mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has uot man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason —...is not a fly. Say, what the use, were finer optics given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 lehte
...body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state ean bear. \\Tiy has not man a mieroseopie # # # # # " " " " opties given, T' inspeet a mite, not eomprehend the heaven ? Or toueh, if tremblingly alive all o'er,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1825 - 920 lehte
...he treated me I might give him only a very laconic answer in the poetical apothegm of Pope. Why had not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason man is not a fly — But I will reply to him as a moralist, not ns a poet for poets are not often sound Philosophers... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 lehte
...beyond his kind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...is not a fly. Say, what the use, were finer optics given To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 lehte
...beyond mankind : No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ' For this plain...is not a fly. Say, what the use were finer optics given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly al,ve all o'er, To smart... | |
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